I've yet to see Seabound live but I suspect they rock the house. This makes me pretty exited to hear the news they are dropping a live album in April. The posted the following news on their myspace. Enjoy!

While Seabound get preparations for the US tour 2008 up to speed, another Seabound release is raring to go: Metropolis Records will release Seabound's live album "Come Forward - Live in Berlin" in April. This album features a live recording of Seabound's show from October 6th, 2007 in Berlin.

I admit that I'm a fan of video game music without guilt or hesitation. mind.in.a.box proves I'm not the only one by remixing a Commadore 64 tune called "Lightforce" by Rob Hubbard. The song is really amazingly good. Please download it and see for yourself!

Someone out there was looking for these so here you go. They put on a great show when I got lucky and saw them perform with VNV Nation before they pulled out of the rest of that tour. Let us hope this tour ends up being less drama fraught.
USA
14.02.2008 --Live USA-- Washington DC-- Club Five
16.02.2008 --Live USA-- Philadelphia-- Shampoo Nightclub
17.02.2008 --Live USA-- New York City-- Avalon
19.02.2008 --Live USA-- San Francisco-- DNA Lounge
21.02.2008 --Live USA-- Seattle-- El Corazon
24.02.2008 --Live USA-- Los Angeles-- Crash Mansion
26.02.2008 --Live USA-- Denver-- Cervantes Masterpiece
28.02.2008-- Live USA-- San Antonio-- White Rabbit

So I should probably be taken out in the street and shot for not noticing and posting this sooner (thanks for the tip, Dave). Two of my current favorite bands are touring... together, and they are playing a club close enough for me to walk to. This is a glorious day. The dates and venues are as follows. Rejoice.

UPDATE: Ground Zero canceled the Minneapolis show. Why do they have to suck so hard? Is anyone in charge over there who is competent? I don't think so at all.
To the benefit of not me, Iris has added shows in Chicago and Detroit.

Another great band joins the annals of history. After their upcoming final performance at Wave & Gotik Treffen in Leipzig in May, Neuroticfish will "close." This is heartbreaking news. I can only hope that Sascha Mario Klein and Henning Verlage move on to things bigger and better. Futurepopolis wishes you both luck and I sure wish I could be at that show.

According to Colony 5's website, they are going to release their upcoming album Buried Again early with a followup "Massive" tour. I'd like to see these guys. I wonder if massive includes the US. I doubt it, tragically. We miss out.

Assemblage 23 performed in Madison, WI on Oct. 14th so I decided to drag myself out to see the show. Things started on a bad note, literally, when Tom Shear began singing. He was a very hoarse sounding, but that thankfully disappeared completely as the show progressed. Tom was backed by a keyboardist and a drummer, with a bulk of the music being prepackaged, which I sort of expected. I was most looking forward to hearing Madman's Dream off of the new album and I was pleased they performed it. The older songs were almost always remixes, which I really appreciated. Dirt was performed, which I didn't expect at all and totally loved. Tom's performance was energetic and very sincere, reminding me of Ronan Harris from VNV. It could also be their matching hairstyles. Another thing that impressed me was Tom's view of encores, which matches mine perfectly. Instead of leaving the stage and making people clap for 10 minutes like monkeys, he just asked if we wanted some more songs and played them. I wish every band worked like that. It's so much more efficient. I would definitely see them perform again. The crowd was totally into it and that made the experience that much more enjoyable.